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This document provides an overview of computers and their uses: 1) Computers are used to find information, communicate, make work easier and quicker, and help humans work faster. 2) Computer memory can store data like words, numbers, pictures that are entered. 3) The basic parts of a computer include the system unit, monitor, printer, scanner, keyboard and mouse. The CPU carries out instructions and runs programs.

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Class Two

This document provides an overview of computers and their uses: 1) Computers are used to find information, communicate, make work easier and quicker, and help humans work faster. 2) Computer memory can store data like words, numbers, pictures that are entered. 3) The basic parts of a computer include the system unit, monitor, printer, scanner, keyboard and mouse. The CPU carries out instructions and runs programs.

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Chapter 1 Whiz and Computers

Uses of Computers

•to find information

•to communicate with family and friends

•make work easier and quicker

•to help human beings work faster

Answers
Exercise (page 2)

Words that can be made from the letters in the word COMPUTER are: come, our, red,
mango, poem, up, tea, Egg.

Exercise (page 3)

Search for information

Do home work

Perform calculations

Check spelling and grammar

Draw images

Exercise (page 6)

three, three, yes, no, no

Explore with Whiz (pages 7 - 8)

Where are computers being used in these pictures? What are they being used for?

Top-left:

At home, to play games

Top-right:

At a bank, to with draw money from a ATM

Bottom:

At an airport, to screen luggage

Answer the following questions.

1. personal 2. Data 3. Data 4. A personal computer

5. in its memory
Whiz’s Tasks
Look at the pictures of the parts of the computer below. One of
the pictures does not belong in the group. Can you spot it? Circle
the picture.
Additional Activity
Tick the correct statement.
(1) (a) The computer remembers everything.

(b) The computer does not remember anything.

(c) The computer remembers everything entered


in to it. ✓
(2) (a) We cannot stored at a on the computer.

(b) We can stored at a permanently.

(c) We can stored at a in the computer’s memory. ✓


(3) (a) The keys on a keyboard are data.
(b) The story we write on the computer is not
data.
(c) Words, numbers, and pictures we feed in to the
computer are called data.
✓

Chapter 2 Computer Hardware


Functions of a CPU:
•to perform calculations
•to process information
•to store data
•to prepare data
•to carry out instructions
•to run programs
Answers
Coloring activity (page 11)
Computer hardware: system unit, monitor,
printer, scanner, keyboard, mouse
Unscramble the letters and write the name of the computer hardware. (page12)

Monitor system unit mouse keyboard


Label the CPU, CD-ROM drive, and USB drive on the system unit. (page13)

CD–ROM drive USB drive CPU


Word Whiz (page 13)

prepare, process
Draw an arrow to show what functions these keys perform. (page16)

The Shift key along with the %5 key together is used to type a symbol.

The Esc key helps to can clean action.

The Caps Lock key is used to type a capital letter.

The Backspace key acts like an eraser.

Word Whiz (page 18)

point: direct select: choose place:put


Fill in the blanks with the correct verb. (page19)

1. move 2. Moves 3. Enter 4. place, click


5. point, select
Word Whiz (page 21)

Hard copy: printed document or data;


Soft copy: unprinted document or data;
Explore with Whiz (pages 21 and 22)

Which keys do the following?


1. Enter key 2. Caps Lock key
3. Shift key + Number key 4. Back space key
Underline the correct answers.

1. Mouse 2. Pointer 3.Scanner


4.Soft copy 5. processing

Whiz’s Tasks
Match the parts of the computer to their correct functions.

Feeds data in to the computer

Shows us what we are doing on the computer

Lets us copy images and text from books

Points at icons on the screen


Chapter 3 Let’s Program the Computer
Answers
Exercise (page 27)

Microsoft Paint

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Power Point

Calculator

Explore with Whiz (pages 28 and 29)

Tick the correct statement.

1. The instruction that a computer receives is called a command. ✓

2. A program is a set of instructions that tells the computer how to perform a task.✓
3. When we switch on the computer, the operating system loads first. ✓

Write a set of instructions which will teach children how to start and shut
down the computer.

1. To start the computer, first switch on the power supply.

2. Press the POWER button on the system unit.

3. Wait for the computer to boot up and display the desktop.

4. To switch off the computer, move the pointer to the Start button on the
taskbar and click on it.

5. Click on it to shut down the computer.

6. Switch off the power supply.

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